Parents Pull the Saddest Prank on Hopeful Child

As a kid, I always dreamed of the day when my parents would surprise me with a Nintendo under the Christmas tree. I never did get a Nintendo (my mom had nightmares about me playing it 24/7), although I did settle for a GameBoy — which for some reason seemed a bit cooler at the time. Needless to say, I know what it feels like to want something like a gaming console so bad, you would give up birthdays for the next five years if it meant getting one.

Unfortunately for Jonathan, as you'll see in the video below, his douchebag parents tricked him into believing he was getting an Xbox for Christmas. Not only did they wrap up an empty Xbox box and fill it with shirts, but they decided to laugh at him once he realizes he didn't get the present he always wanted. Heartbreaking and total child abuse if you ask me.

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All hope is not lost folks. Engadget posted the story offering to get Jonathan an Xbox, and since it went up, Microsoft and other kind geeks have come forward offering to hook him up as well. Stay tuned for the outcome of this story.

These parents are warped. They actually told the little boy to look into the camera and cry for them. They laughed until they could laugh no more at this child hurting and then they walked away. And from the looks of his fat as* parent, she should cut back on a few meals and then she might be able to afford him one, a haircut, and maybe a treadmill for herself.
You know I rarely make fun of anybody, but I can’t stand these evil people and I don’t even know them. There is something wrong with them mentally and now they are trying to do the same to this child.
And I would NOT be surprised if these parents pawned his darn Xbox and games for money, just to by themselves a few more fattening meals at another restaurant.
Foul ghetto as* parents.

These parents are warped. They actually told the little boy to look into the camera and cry for them. They laughed until they could laugh no more at this child hurting and then they walked away. And from the looks of his fat as* parent, she should cut back on a few meals and then she might be able to afford him one, a haircut, and maybe a treadmill for herself. You know I rarely make fun of anybody, but I can’t stand these evil people and I don’t even know them. There is something wrong with them mentally and now they are trying to do the same to this child. And I would NOT be surprised if these parents pawned his darn Xbox and games for money, just to by themselves a few more fattening meals at another restaurant. Foul ghetto as* parents.

All parents know that their children sneak a peek at their gifts before Christmas. That’s why they hide them or lock them away before Christmas Eve. So that is NO EXCUSE for that mother to use.
And besides, his brother lied in the 2nd video because everyone was insulting their family for being cruel & posting the video. The Xbox was NOT in the next room. Now they’re just waiting on that company to send the child a free Xbox & games.
And they acted like that box was the only thing to put clothes in. They could have gone too any cheap store, 99 cent store, or simply Walmart and bought an appropriate box to hold his Christmas clothes in. This action was just plain cruelty. I wonder what else they do on an average day to traumatize this child.

All parents know that their children sneak a peek at their gifts before Christmas. That’s why they hide them or lock them away before Christmas Eve. So that is NO EXCUSE for that mother to use. And besides, his brother lied in the 2nd video because everyone was insulting their family for being cruel & posting the video. The Xbox was NOT in the next room. Now they’re just waiting on that company to send the child a free Xbox & games.And they acted like that box was the only thing to put clothes in. They could have gone too any cheap store, 99 cent store, or simply Walmart and bought an appropriate box to hold his Christmas clothes in. This action was just plain cruelty. I wonder what else they do on an average day to traumatize this child.

i think this is really cruel and it has effected me greatly this will stay with him for a very long timw the way they laughed in his face and told him to look at the camrea and cry dikheads the mum is such a fat bitch and has enough money to stuff herface then look after her child evan if jonathon receives a xobx theres no garentee that hel get to touch it with the family that he has its sadd to c this happening to such a young sweet boy and he didnt recieve a new one from his family they lied and admitted to it being a prank.

He probably won't get to play the xbox anyway because the parents will be using it.
I do find the references in posts to weight to be horribly rude, however. Crappy parenting is crappy parenting - regardless of weight and finances.

What kid hasn't peeked at their presents? I accidentally came across a bag full of my unwrapped gifts one year. (I swear, that time it was an accident. This was before my mom learned how to hide the presents well. All she did was put the bag on the other side of the bed!) My friend told & my mom was pissed. She thought I deliberately looked for them. I never convinced her it was an accident, but I still got the presents."turn to the camera & cry...", damn, those are some awesome adults. Even if they did give him the x-box later, that's still some f'd-up mess.

What kid hasn't peeked at their presents? I accidentally came across a bag full of my unwrapped gifts one year. (I swear, that time it was an accident. This was before my mom learned how to hide the presents well. All she did was put the bag on the other side of the bed!) My friend told & my mom was pissed. She thought I deliberately looked for them. I never convinced her it was an accident, but I still got the presents.
"turn to the camera & cry...", damn, those are some awesome adults. Even if they did give him the x-box later, that's still some f'd-up mess.

Wow. Like this has never happened before. I think the only bad part is that it was on YouTube.
That kid will grow up, get over it, and have a funny story to tell about the Christmas his parents got him an XBox.

Wow. Like this has never happened before. I think the only bad part is that it was on YouTube. That kid will grow up, get over it, and have a funny story to tell about the Christmas his parents got him an XBox.

Regardless of the circumstances before or after the incident in the video, what the parents did was cruel. It was a form of emotional abuse, to bring a child's hopes up and dash them "as a joke" and then laugh and laugh as he begins to cry to himself. No one hugged him or comforted him in any human way. If you know anyone currently in the field of child psychology they would agree.

I am still mad... they did humiliate him, and THEY TAPE IT!
they knew their child was going to suffer a disappointment and embarrassment, what a better way that tape it to immortality... ok I am exaggerating.. but MAN!!!
"look son, this is the tape when nanny and granpa make me cry for an x box.... and this tape is of your aunts recital"

I am still mad... they did humiliate him, and THEY TAPE IT!they knew their child was going to suffer a disappointment and embarrassment, what a better way that tape it to immortality... ok I am exaggerating.. but MAN!!! "look son, this is the tape when nanny and granpa make me cry for an x box.... and this tape is of your aunts recital"

Ok, as a kid I TOTALLY peeked at my presents one year. Or two. Doesn't every kid do this?! And I'm saying, if my parents had given me and empty Barbie box, I'd still be scarred!
As a kid, you're able to feel pure uncomplicated sadness, and the realization that this is a lesson/consequences does not set in. Plus, he doesn't start crying until they really laugh hard at him--those are embarrassment tears, not disappointment tears.
And the family lied about giving him the Xbox later, as Engadget found out.

Ok, as a kid I TOTALLY peeked at my presents one year. Or two. Doesn't every kid do this?! And I'm saying, if my parents had given me and empty Barbie box, I'd still be scarred! As a kid, you're able to feel pure uncomplicated sadness, and the realization that this is a lesson/consequences does not set in. Plus, he doesn't start crying until they really laugh hard at him--those are embarrassment tears, not disappointment tears.And the family lied about giving him the Xbox later, as Engadget found out.

apma - you are right. He shouldn't have look at his presents before Christmas, his parents, who know what is better for his son moral and strength, have the right to teach him a lesson, and what a better way that LAUGHING AT HIS FACE. Really really educating.I do agree that he should snoop, but... do they have to humiliate him so he can learn a lesson, wait minute... maybe yes...

apma - you are right. He shouldn't have look at his presents before Christmas, his parents, who know what is better for his son moral and strength, have the right to teach him a lesson, and what a better way that LAUGHING AT HIS FACE. Really really educating.
I do agree that he should snoop, but... do they have to humiliate him so he can learn a lesson, wait minute... maybe yes...

I agree with others: he doesn't need an xbox, he needs a new family. My parents would have never done anything like that to me--WHO WOULD?? Getting him an xbox is just going to give his horrible mom and the rest of his family an xbox too. All for humiliating and breaking the heart of that little boy.

I can't believe some of the people on here are actually supporting the fact that the parents are mean because they tired to teach the kid not to look at his presents before Christmas. He shouldn't have looked at his presents. HE STILL GOT HIS XBOX 360. It just wasn't shown in this video. But he also got a lesson in not snooping.

I can't believe some of the people on here are actually supporting the fact that the parents are mean because they tired to teach the kid not to look at his presents before Christmas. He shouldn't have looked at his presents.
HE STILL GOT HIS XBOX 360. It just wasn't shown in this video. But he also got a lesson in not snooping.

THI SIS CHILD ABUSE!!!1 is there a law or something!!! they must be punished!!!
people keep and keep doing this "jokes" they are A W F U L
I know they can't afford a x box... but they coudl afford to laught at his face, to search for box...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRG...
I AM SO SO MAD!!

THI SIS CHILD ABUSE!!!1 is there a law or something!!! they must be punished!!!people keep and keep doing this "jokes" they are A W F U LI know they can't afford a x box... but they coudl afford to laught at his face, to search for box...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRG... I AM SO SO MAD!!